The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has come into effect after a delay of almost three hours. The three-stage truce starts ...

Narrative imagination, conceptual insight and rigorous analysis are essential to illuminating history. A Nobel Prize in history should celebrate this interdisciplinary richness, acknowledging scholars ...

For many years, Egypt and Syria shared Soviet patronage, briefly formed a short-lived, failed union (the United Arab Republic ...

The creation of the National Front could see regional militiamen gaining unprecedented access to power in the country ...

Among the drawn-out conflicts rarely out of the news is one in which entrenched, often nationalist campaigners ... In September, Egyptian ex-minister of state for antiquities affairs, long-time ...

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JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Fighting in the Gaza Strip halted on Sunday as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian ...

Negotiators were near to hammering out the final details of a ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday after marathon talks in Qatar, ...

He signed a treaty giving Panama sovereignty over its canal, averting a possible nationalist uprising there ... the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel seemed to be his greatest ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...